Tag: volleyball

At one point in the San Benito High boys volleyball team’s season-opener against Gilroy on Feb. 25, the Haybalers had five freshmen and a sophomore on the court.

Though the Rams laughed as they dove after volleyballs in the sand, practice was no joke. These ladies mean business.

The Hollister-based Crush 15-and-under club girls volleyball team made some history on Feb. 7-8, as it was one of 12 teams out of 98 squads to qualify for the gold division in the ultra-competitive Power League Qualifiers tournament in Sacramento.

In her first two years at San Benito High, Marisa Villegas has performed remarkable feats in volleyball and track and field.

The San Benito High girls volleyball team was facing its worst-case scenario last Saturday in a Central Coast Section Division I playoff quarterfinal—down two games to none and in danger of getting swept out of the postseason in front of its own fans.

San Benito High freshmen Annie Breger, Kieley Hoskins, Nicole Andrade, Noel Chavarria and Lauren Sabbatini weren’t even born when the original Fab Five dominated the nation’s sports consciousness—that would be the Chris Webber-led Michigan basketball team in the early 1990s—but they’ll gladly take the moniker.

The smallest player on the Gavilan College women’s volleyball team—Raelynn Heredia—often times has the biggest impact.

The reserves on the Gavilan College women’s volleyball team never sat down during Wednesday’s Coast Conference South Division opener against Skyline College.

Anzar High sophomore Katia Dizon and junior Carly Offermann have known each other almost their entire lives—they both attended San Juan School and met each other when Offermann was in the first grade and Dizon in kindergarten—and their friendship started to really blossom in the eighth grade.

GILROY—Gavilan’s volleyball players are taking their game outside this spring.